About Me
The Center for Wooden Boats offers an opportunity to experience the dimensions of an earlier time, to put your hands on the oars of a graceful pulling boat or the tiller of a traditional wooden catboat. With help from master craftsmen, you can learn to steambend an oak frame, cast an oarlock, ...
The Center for Wooden Boats offers an opportunity to experience the dimensions of an earlier time, to put your hands on the oars of a graceful pulling boat or the tiller of a traditional wooden catboat. With help from master craftsmen, you can learn to steambend an oak frame, cast an oarlock, sew a canvas ditty bag, splice a line or caulk a seam. The Center for Wooden Boats is a hands on maritime museum. Its purpose is to preserve our rich, vital and varied small craft heritage by preserving both the artifacts and the time-tested maritime skills. Our aim is to provide an educational adventure, through participation, in our small craft heritage.
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The Center for Wooden Boats is an expert in these subjects:
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Sailing
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Learn Safe Boating with CWB and the Coast Guard Auxiliary
1 session available for $30.00 -
Media Pirates AHOY!
1 session available for $350.00 - See more (21) »
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Boat Building & Repair
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Lapstrake Boatbuilding: The Lake Oswego Boat
1 session available for $900.00 -
Aleut Ikyak (Baidarka) Workshop
1 session available for $1,200.00 - See more (6) »
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Woodworking
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Haida Canoe Carving
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Beginning Woodworking
1 session available for $225.00 - See more (4) »
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Drawing
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Keys to Drawing
1 session available for $475.00 -
Still Life, Comin' Alive
1 session available for $495.00
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Arts and Crafts
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Cedar Hat Making
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Canvas Work Made Easy
1 session available for $220.00
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My Reviews write a review
"Exciting class!"
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- Tony B
- Seattle, WA
Review of RaceNOW! One Design Racing Clinic, July 15, 2009
My girlfriend and I took this class in 2008 and had a blast - CWB has a great fleet of boats and they went to a lot of trouble to make all of the 20 foot blanchards available for the racing program so that the class was like sailing in a full regatta. The instructor explained the basics of how to race sailboats in a way that was really easy to understand, and then quickly got us out on the water for at least 8 or 10 races oer the weekend. We had dockside "debrief" sessions in between the racing so we could learn what we had done well on the water. It gave us the confidence to take our boat out for some of Corinthian Yacht Club's fun races on the Sound.
My girlfriend and I took this class in 2008 and had a blast - CWB has a great fleet of boats and they went to a lot of trouble to make all of the 20 foot blanchards available for the racing program so that the class was like sailing in a full regatta. The instructor explained the basics of how to race sailboats in a way that was really easy to understand, and then quickly got us out on the wat...
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- Engaging, Encouraging, Smart, Funny, Good communicator
- How was this location?:
- Awesome
- How was the price?:
- Great value
I would recommend this teacher
"Friendly, Fabulous & Fun!"
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- Katie
- Seattle, WA
Review of The Center for Wooden Boats, July 02, 2008
What can I say? Sometimes you don't even realize how much fun you're missing out on until a big ol' bunch of it lands in your lap. I feel that way about Center for Wooden Boats.
This place is one of Seattle's true gems. It's a organization that really feels like is has a hard-working and dedicated community that supports it. Everyone I've met here is warm and engaging... and they offer great classes.
The day I went to CWB, it was actually to use their library room for a team meeting -- the sailing "class" was actually just a bonus. However, we went out with one of the sailing instructors who not only told us about how to make the sails catch the wind (little that there was), but he also gave us a little history lesson about our 40 year old boat (an old oystering boat) and the wooden boat community in the Northwest. It was great to be out on the water, but even better to be out on the water with someone who really loves what they do.
And these boating folks really do love what they do. Joining us on our boat was a Texan who came all the way to Seattle to take a kayak-building class. I was like... "Do people really make there own kayaks?" Apparently the hard-core folks at CWB do. They were building them out on their lawn the morning of our meeting and we got to chat with the instructor (a local) and the students (from Alaska, Texas, Michigan and the Pacific NW).
I didn't even realize there was stuff like this out there. I may never become a boat builder, but if I do... this place is definitely going to be my first stop. In the mean time, I'll be back for more sailing lessons soon.
What can I say? Sometimes you don't even realize how much fun you're missing out on until a big ol' bunch of it lands in your lap. I feel that way about Center for Wooden Boats.
This place is one of Seattle's true gems. It's a organization that really feels like is has a hard-working and dedicated community that supports it. Everyone I've met here is warm and engaging... and they offer great ...
My Recent Activity
- Tony B reviewed RaceNOW! One Design Racing Clinic July 15, 2009
- The Center for Wooden Boats added a photo to Get Your Captain's License with CWB and U.S. Maritime Academy April 11, 2009
- The Center for Wooden Boats added a photo to Watercolor on the Edge April 11, 2009
- The Center for Wooden Boats added a photo to Cold Molded Boat Building April 11, 2009
- The Center for Wooden Boats added a photo to Haida Canoe Carving April 11, 2009
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